Artist: Mattias Kaul

Title: Nothing Is Real

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2005

Label: Wergo Germany

UPC: 4010228666021

Genre: Classical Composers

Album Tracks

1. Distant Drums
2. Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra
3. The Sacred Fox
4. Opera with Objects
5. Nothing Is Real

The focus of the pieces by Alvin Lucier on this CD is on the phenomena of resonance - sympathetic vibration - in many variations. "Time and again I find myself having to pare away any musical gestures in a work in order to uncover the true idea in a piece," says Alvin Lucier. The composer knows which ideas he wants to liberate. But the process of causing the environment to resound is always a collaborative, interactive project. It needs someone who is creatively engaged, even obsessed, to make Lucier's music of ideas a music of the ears. Someone of precisely the type found in this production - Matthias Kaul.